I've been listening to everything though my speaker setup. Headphones took a backseat. And as a result, I have no idea what my options are these days. My V6 and my HD25 are both good at what I use them for, but that is not any kind of serious listening. They're more portable, or casual...

I'm looking for something new now that my plans to eventually snag a set of orthos has fallen through. I definitely want a new set of open cans if I'm getting something full sized. I'm looking for some mids similar to what Grado gave me, not necessarily the same mids tonally, just somewhat...

Anything better than the y1? I'm looking for something cheaper (not too far ahead of the y1 in price) that supports higher sampling rates. The basic issue is that I need to keep it cheap, keep it simple, and support SPDIF. If the y1 is the best option for me there then I'll try that out, if...

Alright guys, I'm considering going back to Grado just for the midrange.... I realize more and more that's what I loved, not the highs, not the airiness, it was the mids. Looking back, I felt the bass was lacking, the highs could be harsh at times, and the comfort was nearly nonexistent. The...

I just decided I should try this out on my Parasound HCA-750A power amp. It sounded absolutely horrendous with static, hiss, and crackles throughout the entire listening session. I removed the preamp from the chain (Parasound P/SP-1500 AV) and ran the source straight to the amp dropping the gain...

I just picked up a Parasound P/SP1500AV and HCA750A combo. The problem is (actually there are 3, two of which I new about) that the pre has no HP out. The ESP P100 project looks to be what I need to do here, but everything I have seen says 120Ω output is not good, closer to 0Ω is and a high DF...

The question is more about whether the sensitivity of the preamp can make a ground hum somewhere more evident or whether there is a way to fight it. On my old cheap Sony receiver, I could connect anything and hear very little hum from anything, but it was weak, and it sounded pretty bad in...

As the title says, I'm looking for both USB and optical inputs, RCA outputs, and if there is a digital out, I'd prefer it to be a Digital Coax RCA out. USB protocol is not important in this purchase as I don't see having much of a choice but asynchronous would be better if available. Optical...

Hi guys, I have a little school project going on and needed to test a hypothesis for psychology. I'm working on seeing how popularity affects likelihood of a purchase and decided to focus it on electronics to keep it simple. It's a really brief survey (5 questions) and you'd be helping a lot if...

This seems like a pattern anymore, and I want to know if anyone is actually doing this, or if it's just my imagination here. It really seems like people see something like LCD-2, HD800, D7000, etc. and buy it because it's supposedly great. But then, rather than listen to what they already like...

I've got a few things I want to verify/clarify/decide prior to ordering some parts. With RadioShack being my only local option, I don't really have an option but to order these parts. What would be my best way to run the amplification stages? 4 single channel op-amps, 2 duals (one per channel)...

First off, this isn't a headphone amp, but considering it is an amp, I figure somebody can figure it out. I was looking for an amp to build, and came across the Oddwatt 225 which looks pretty interesting, but the schematic is confusing me a little. My first question about this thing is where...

For all the people insisting on selling them on CL, I figure we should have a place to highlight the worst around us. Here's the worst one I've bothered to read all the way through: Go ahead and call him. I'm curious to see what he does when one of you guys in Europe calls him up to say...

I'm selling off my surround stuff since I listen to music 90% of the time and it is not really benefitting anything there. Instead of just replacing it with some mass produced stereo amp, I thought I'd try out some tubes for a change of pace. The pull of headphone amps is kinda keeping me from...

If I do a dual OPA227, would I need 2 supplies or could I take the 18V in the schematic on tangent's site and just split the +9 and -9 to each op-amp to get 9V to each instead of 18V to one OPA2227? Any reasons not to split it? I just need to know if I should buy more caps to double the power...

I know it's not the song, I've heard it a thousand times without this problem, but first time this version of Radar Love started, boom, I felt like I was underwater and the sound was just crushing my head. However, unlike the 64kbps and under songs I've heard that do this that always lose the...

Alright guys here's another "What should I build?" thread I have a pair of SR-125i's (soon to be Bila'd) and am looking for a decent amp for them. I'm thinking SS at the moment just out of lack of experience with tubes of any kind (but any hybrid recommendations are welcome). I don't need any...

The iPod has always been somewhat bad in my experience with using any TRS plug that's not the original iBud one. The plug will latch in like it should, but it sits pretty far from the edge of the iPod and is able to wiggle causing pops and hissing. But it's much worse with my MBP, the plug does...

I found a used Pioneer PL-112D TT and Harman/Kardon 330B Receiver for $125 on my local Craigslist and was wondering what people thought of the price and combination of the two. Any advice on these is much appreciated. Hopefully somebody can help quickly so I don't risk losing this if it's worth...

Can anybody post some pics of the different colors offered? I don't need to see black, but I haven't seen anything saying what the real difference between brown, light brown, dark brown, and camel actually is. I'm most interested in dark brown as of now, but I'd be interested to see the...

I'm looking for something to listen to with my iPod. I'm definitely getting an amp if I get any decent phones, almost definitely LOD as well. All of my music is either 320Kbps MP3 or in the process of being re-ripped/re-downloaded. Actually it's all being done as FLAC and then converted in...